There was a dusty patch and a net for volleyball too.

On a dusty patch of ground opposite, some lads were kicking a football around, yelling exuberantly.

Today, some 10 years later, what had once been a burned-out dusty patch is a shamrock-green carpet that stretches from one fence to the other.

She was watching two naked children play with a deflated ball in the dusty patch of ground in front of the shack.

It was a clear, early-spring morning and several of the children played on a dusty patch of ground next to a run-down factory.

No more turkey tracks showed in the dusty patches.

He said he would stand in the middle of the same dusty patch of earth if the fire caught him by surprise.

There were dusty patches on the knees of his jeans, where he had knelt, and*e brushed the dust away.

First they'd walked in a dusty patch, the dust rising enough to impede observation, but now they were into greenish-blue ground cover.

A farmyard dog barked at my approach but soon returned to his dusty patch of sunlight.